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The collier HIJMS Muroto at anchor, in 1928. In 1941 Muroto was converted to a supply ship. Torpedoed and sunk on 22 October 1944, SSW of Kagoshima (29 degrees 19' N, 129 degrees 44' E) by Sea Dog (SS-401).

Photo courtesy of Japanese Naval Vessels of World War Two as seen by U.S. Naval Intelligence". Text taken from two sources: "Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945" by Jentschura, Jung and Mickel, translated by Antony Preston and J.D. Brown, and "The World's Merchant Fleets 1939" by Roger W. Jordan, courtesy of Robert Hurst.

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Refit took Sea Dog (SS-401) into May, when preparations were
made for her last foray into Japanese home waters. Additional duties during the patrol included those of flagship for the nine-submarine Japan Sea Patrol Pack (TC; 17.21). On the 27th, she departed Guam with the other two submarines of her immediate pack, Spadefish (SS-411) and Crevalle (SS-291). Crewmen transferring a torpedo from a submarine tender to a submarine about to leave on a war patrol, May 1945.

Sea Dog (SS-401) enters Pearl Harbor in September 1947 following a midshipman cruise.

US National Archives photo # 80-G 421080, from NARA, College Park, Maryland, courtesy of Sean Hert.

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In mid-January 1948, Sea Dog (SS-401) again deployed to the western Pacific, where, after a visit to Australia, she again joined TG 71.2, the 7th Fleet's antisubmarine warfare training group at Tsingtao. She appears here between 26-31 January 1948.

Text courtesy of DANFS.Photos by Allan C. Green, from the State Library of Victoria, Australia, courtesy of Stephen Gower.

Sea Dog (SS-401) underway in the 1950's, still displaying the unmistakable profile of the Balao-class "Fleet Boats." Deck guns have been removed to improve her submerged performance, and a post-war air-search radar is mounted on its tall mast. A surface/search radar and two antennas are on the periscope shears, while two sonar antennas can be seen on the deck forward. A whip antennae extends horizontally from the radar mast.

USN photo from NARA, # 80-G-634366, courtesy of Daniel Dunham.

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12 years before Sea Dog (SS-401) met her end, she appears here in a photo from a slide taken by WWII enthusiast and camera buff Bob Zalanskas in March, 1965, on Derby Wharf, Salem, Massachusetts.